Ty Segall

Ty Garrett Segall (born June 8, 1987) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his prolific solo career during which he has released ten studio albums, alongside various EPs, singles, and collaborative albums, including a 2012 release recorded with his live band billed as the Ty Segall Band and another from that same year with Tim Presley of White Fence. Segall is also a member of the bands Fuzz, Broken Bat and GØGGS, and is a former member of The Traditional Fools, Epsilons, Party Fowl, Sic Alps, and The Perverts. During live performances, Segall is currently backed by The Freedom Band, consisting of regular collaborators Mikal Cronin (bass), Charles Moothart (drums), and Emmett Kelly (guitar), playing alongside Ben Boye (piano). His previous backing bands have been the Ty Segall Band, consisting of Cronin (bass), Moothart (guitar), and Emily Rose Epstein (drums), The Muggers, a high concept band, formed in 2016, and consisting of Cronin (bass, sax), Kelly (guitar), Kyle Thomas (guitar) and Wand's Cory Hanson (keyboards, guitar) and Evan Burrows (drums), and The Sleeper Band, consisting of Sean Paul (guitar), Andrew Luttrell (bass) and Moothart (drums). 2Early Life Segall is the adopted son of a Laguna Beach, California family; his father is a lawyer and his mother, an artist. Segall's first love was surfing, a sport his father taught him at age ten, however in high school, the object of his love became records. After a neighborhood girl who was moving away gifted Segall a stack of Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper LPs, he became obsessed with music. He describes his teenage self as emotionally unstable, a "very existential eighteen-year-old drinker," whose instability was temporarily mended by the escapism music provided him. During Seagall's last two years at Laguna Beach High School, MTV filmed the reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County ther